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Renegades: Heroes Vs Villains?
Hey everyone, With the release of Marissa Meyer’s wonderful Renegades just around the corner [although I have seen some cheeky copies of it floating around my nearest Waterstones] Coffee Stars Books got offered some ARC copies and some bookish swag to celebrate the upcoming release. So I’m here today with my brilliant writer friend, Maddy to talk about some kick-ass heroes and some troubling villains. I read the book a few months back, so you can read a slightly spoilery review of the book here if you want to hear more. Personally, I think the Anarchists [the villains] have a valid point. Maddy thinks the Renegade superheroes have the moral highground here.…
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Valley Girls Book Review
Valley Girls by Sarah Nicole Lemon Seventeen-year-old Rilla is a party queen, driven from her home in West Virginia to her park ranger sister’s place in Yosemite National Park. Determined to forge a new identity she can be proud of, Rilla charms her way into a tight-knit group of climbers. Talking to them, Rilla can’t help but be seduced by the unique opportunities she’s been granted. Not wishing to squander them, she sets her sights on climbing El Capitan, one of the most challenging routes in Yosemite, and her summer becomes one harrowing and ecstatic experience after another: first climb, first fall two thousand feet in the air, first love. Rilla…
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Outwalkers Book Review
Outwalkers by Fiona Shaw This is England in the near future. It is no longer a free country. With a chip implanted at birth, the Government can track anyone, anywhere. And children without two parents are sent to Academy orphanages, where they’re treated miserably and eventually groomed to work on fracking fields for the rest of their lives. Unless they can escape. Jake at least wants to give going on the run a try. Following the death of his parents in a car crash, he flees his Academy, pausing only to rescue his faithful dog, Jet. Once on the run, he makes trails to Scotland, a country free of the oppressive…
